The family and its members

"The family has two functions; as a smaller group it affords opportunity for eliciting qualities of affection and character which cannot be displayed in a larger group; and in t...

"From my grandfather I learned good morals and the government of temper. From my great-grandfather to know that on education one should spend liberally. From the reputation and...

"Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me; Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen; For room to me...

"It is all work, and forgotten work, this peopled, clothed, articulate-speaking, high-towered, wide-acred world. For the thistle a blade of grass, later a drop of nourishing mil...

"I should like to point out by what principles of action we rose to power and under what institutions and through what manner of life we became great. We are called a democracy,...

"Two shall be born the whole wide world apart And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being and no heed; And those o'er unknown seas to unknown l...

"Strength and dignity are her clothing; She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue. She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth no...

"His children strive to take his spirit up and keep it living; They share with all the love he gave his own, as he had shared, And lives, his love has served, all call him father."

"To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by reference to this end. For complete living...

"The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, From flower to flower, from snow to snow:

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how lik...

"Every wrong-doer should have his due. But what is his due? Can we measure it by his past alone, or is it due any one to regard him as a man having a future as well? As having p...

"It was perhaps an idle thought But I imagined that if day by day I watched him and seldom went away, And studied all the beatings of his heart With zeal (as men study some stub...

"Every social ill involves the enslavement of individuals. Freedom is that phase of the social ideal which emphasizes individuality.--All mankind acknowledges kindness as the la...

"The members of the ancient family were united by something more powerful than birth, affection, or physical strength; this was the religion of the sacred fire and of dead ances...

First Report of Massachusetts State Board of Education, by Horace Mann. Songs, by Emily Dickinson, The Book. Publications of the Foreign Language Information Service. Publicatio...

Mental Diseases in Twelve States, by Horatio M. Pollock and Edith M. Forbush, _Mental Hygiene_, April, 1921. The Kallikak Family, Dr. F.H. Goddard. Treatise on Idiocy, by Dr. Ed...

The Hygiene of Mind, by Dr. T.S. Clouston. The Social Cost of Unguided Ability, by Professor Woods. Hereditary Improvement, by Francis Galton. Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics,...

Ethical Culture School and Pioneer Manual Training School, New York, Reports. Democracy and Education, by John Dewey. The Primitive Family as an Educational Agency, by Arthur R....

A Uniform Joint Guardianship Law, Conference of Commissioners for Uniform State Laws. The Sheppard-Towner Act for Maternity Benefits, U.S. Children's Bureau. Infant Mortality Ra...

Danish Care for the Aged, by Edith Sellers. The State and Pensions for Old Age, by J.A. Spender. Report of Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce. Old-age Support of Women Tea...

Agamemnon, The Choephori and The Furies, The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Native Tribes of Southeast Australia, Chapter on The Education of the Australian Boy, by A.W. Howitt. The Pa...

Sociology and Modern Problems, by C.A. Ellwood. The Divorce Problem, by W.F. Willcox. Problems of Marriage and Divorce in Woman's Share in Social Culture, by Anna Garlin Spencer...

History of Factory Legislation, by Hutchins and Harrison. Census Estimates of Women Wage-earners. Code for Women in Industry, by Department of Labor, Division of Women in Indust...

Concerning Prisoners, by Bernard Glueck, _Mental Hygiene_, April, 1918. Report on the Draft Examinations, by H.W. Lanier. Out-of-school Activities, _The Survey_. Moral Equivalen...